inari Omakase Kuruçeşme — Restaurant in Beşiktaş

If you are up to a Japanese meal, this is one of your options in Istanbul. Its high point is its location being located on the Bosporus near Istanbul’s one of the most beautiful neighborhoods of Bebek. If you cannot tolerate high volume music operated by a DJ then your best shot is to go there for lunch but not for dinner. I prefer a dinner at a down to earth , operated solely with a mission of serving good meal restaurant with soft music playing in the background, allowing you to make a comfortable and pleasant conversation with your table-mates. Inari certainly does not fit this description with its night club ambiance enforced also with dim light. ( the reason why all photos appeared dark even with flash light). That also explains the average age of the clients being not more than 35 in this venue at night. It has an original and nice decoration. I am sure l would have liked it better at a table by the window also admiring the Bosporus view and watching the sailing boats for a luncheon. The food is not at its best but acceptable. There are some very good things among many choices you order and some mediocre ones. The salmon choices are fresh and tasty. Service was friendly. The cherry on the cake was the bitter chocolate cheese cake served with restaurant’s own production “digestivo” , redwine and vodka blended with cinnamon and kardomom(hemame or kakule)...

Very "specific" service. We booked a table for 5 persons, and in the restaurant they said, that the only already merged table is booked and they can only move together some other tables. In a few minutes said that was our booking and we were moved. Waiters didn't write anything about the order and because of that forgot some positions. There was no toilet paper in the toilet. The worst part was when waiter tried to take away food from the table, when it wasn't finished.

Quality of the food was medium with extremely high price and small portions.

The strangest thing was mentions of the Michelin guide on the table. I don't want to believe that Michelin gives that to places like that.

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Generally food is very tasty. They serve a large variety of “house special rolls”. Shrimp tempuras are great. Apart from the food, they have a very good bar with many signature cocktails. Ambiance of the restaurant is elegant. Very well decorated but not overwhelming. Also location is very good together with a decent sea view. Service is flawless. Regarding the prices, naturally it is not cheap but taking into consideration that sushi is a luxury food even in a casual restaurant, the prices are not exaggerated (for the moment - under current economical circumstances prices can not be very stable in Turkey) This is one of the best sushi restaurants in town, if...